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CHICAGO — Trident Windy City’s annual Cupcake Wars fundraiser raised a record $2,500 for the Broadway Youth Center on Sunday, April 2. The backpatch club invited clubs and organizations from across Chicago to participate in its annual bake-off. All money raised goes to support BYC, the Howard Brown Health Center’s youth center. The BYC offers refuge,…

CHICAGO — Gerald Cernak, aka Daddy G, won the Mr. Chicago Leather 2017 title on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Leather Archives & Museum. Daddy G was one of two contestants in this year’s contest, well down from past years. IML 2003 John Pendal came back for his 14th run as contest emcee. The contest…

CHICAGO — While Chicago had the largest in the state, and one of the largest in the country, sister marches to the Women’s March on Washington took place across Illinois, including traditionally conservative cities. The Chicago Tribune reported that about 250,000 people flooded into downtown to participate in the march. Organizers originally expected 40,000 when…

CHICAGO — The Full Kit Gear store in Chicago hosted a launch party last night for the lates line from Nasty Pig, a kink-friendly designer in New York. Store manager Sarah Sloane said that the Chicago location is the only place to get Nasty Pig shredders, all one of a kind, outside of the company’s New York City…

CHICAGO — Pup Vegas won the first Imperial Windy City Court Puppy contest on Saturday, July 30, at Chicago’s Jackhammer bar. This was the first year for the contest. The previous titleholder, Pup Vino, was appointed to the title and later went on to win Mr. Midwest Leather 2016. Vegas will go on to the…

CHICAGO — The Chicago leather community came together on Saturday, June 18, to raise $3,625 at Touche for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando the week before. Mr. Chicago Leather 2015 Luis Tipantasig organized the fundraiser the day after the massacre and recruited titleholders and organizations in Chicago and across the region to…

CHICAGO — Transgender activist and adult performer Buck Angel will be returning to Chicago with three different events across the city. His appearances start on Monday, June 20, at Early to Bed in Andersonville. From the event page: Buck Angel is an award winning filmmaker and groundbreaking pornographer. He pioneered as the first transsexual man…

CHICAGO — In light of the massacre at Orlando, Fla.’s Pulse nightclub, Chicago area titleholders have come together to raise money for support of the victims and their families with a fundraiser on Saturday, June 18. On Sunday, June 12, a gunman entered the gay club in Orlando with guns, killing 49 and injuring 53…

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